Isaaci Casauboni De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI. Ad Cardinalis Baronii Prolegomena in Annales et primam eorum partem, de D.N. Iesu Christi Nativitate, Vita, Passione, Assumptione. […]

<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> Full title:</b> Isaaci Casauboni De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI. Ad Cardinalis Baronii Prolegomena in Annales et primam eorum partem, de D.N. Iesu Christi Nativitate, Vita, Passione, Assumptione. Cum prolegomenis auctoris, in quibus de Baronianis Annalibus candidè disputatur.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [70], 678, [30], f. [1] (blank). Signatures: *⁴ (*4 blank) a-h⁴ A-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ Aaa-Zzz⁴ Aaaa-Tttt⁴ Vuuu². Contemporary vellum over boards. Gilded spine title on brown lettering panel with gilded border. Armorial bookplate of the Hon. George Baillie, 1724, and his signature on title page. Crossed out manuscript signature on 1^st blank. Pencil marks. Title page printed in red and black; title page vignette (a crown). Head- and tailpieces; initials. Predominantly printed in double columns. Includes indexes and quotations in Greek and Hebrew. Each part has a separate title page. Includes bibliographical references and index at end: "Sacrae Scripturae loca, de quorum lectione, aut versione aut intrepretatione, aliquid obseruatur in his Exercitationibus" and "Rerum et verborum in Isaaci Casauboni Exercitationibus XVI. memorabilium, index."</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">In this work, first published in 1614 (see Bib# 9075524/Fr# 325.1 in this collection), Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) </span></font><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">criticizes the monumental Ecclesiastical Annales of Cesare Baronio (1538-1607), published in 12 volumes, from 1588 to 1607 (see Bib# 4102666/Fr# 118 in this collection for the 1624 edition). Casaubon demonstrates that Baronio knew no Hebrew and no Greek, and was totally destitute of the critical skill. He planned to publish 12 volumes of the criticism, setting against each volume of Baronio's Annals a volume of his own; however, his death that very year prevented him from continuing the project beyond the first volume. For a detailed account of the Casaubon-Baronius controversy, see M. Pattison, Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614. London, 1875, p. 322-341 (Bib# 708111/Fr# 26). See A. Grafton, Forgers and critics: creativity and duplicity in Western scholarship. London, 1990, pp. 87 ff. </span></p><p class="marcline" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p> <span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4102667" rel="ugc nofollow"><span style="color:rgb(75,100,255);">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</span></a></span>